bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-25 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, James Youngman wrote: The timestamps look OK to me: ... Perhaps the cause is this rule, though: dblocation.texi: ../locate/dblocation.texi cp ../locate/dblocation.texi $@ This will clearly update the mtime of dblocation.texi. Hi James, indeed. You could use

bug#20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of make distcheck

2015-03-24 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
not be older than the .texi file (and other dependencies), thus the rule for .texi.info should never be used during make distcheck. Something wrong with your timestamps and or filesystem? Regards Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de

bug#11346: automake-1.12 - one test fails (due to truncated timestamp)

2012-04-26 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Good idea. Can you confirm that the attached patch solves your problem? Hi Stefano, it does indeed. BTW: The Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes should be unnecessary because you should still have the paperwork from the ObjC++ integration. Regards

bug#11346: automake-1.12 - one test fails (due to truncated timestamp)

2012-04-26 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: because you should still have the paperwork from the ObjC++ integration. I wasn't involved in the project yet back then, so I wasn't aware you had the paperwork in place already. Now I am :-) Hi Stefano, and the whole ObjC++ integration (one

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-12 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
to the respective perl scripts in $(texmfdir). To summarize: 'nodist_bin_SCRIPTS =' is an extremely convenient way to ensure that $(bindir) -- or rather $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) -- exists. Regards Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de

bug#8969: improve synchronization between examples in the manual and test cases

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
-binpkg.test +++ b/tests/amhello-binpkg.test @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ # Document an example from the manual about the `amhello' package: # using DESDIR to build simple, no-frills binary packages. Hi Stefano, could this be a typo (DESDIR vs DESTDIR)? Regards Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de

bug#8718: error when using nested conditionals

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Nope, it gets the information from the fact each AM_CONDITIONAL invocation does this: AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE( [if test -z ${$1_TRUE} test -z ${$1_FALSE}; then AC_MSG_ERROR([[conditional $1 was never defined. Usually this means the

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
relocatability point. Hi Ralf, I remember a problem with gcc's 'make check' that could be related. Some tests failed when `pwd -L` was different from `pwd -P`, presumably due to the two different srcdir's. I could avoid this problem by first doing 'cd `pwd -P`'. Regards Peter Breitenlohner p

Re: automake/535: Extract correct man section from files in MAN_MANS

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
. However, I am not quite sure how that would be done best: in aclocal or in the rule generated by autmoake? Regards, Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de

Re: automake/535: Extract correct man section from files in MAN_MANS

2009-03-07 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
are created. Shall I try to do that, or will you (knowing better exactly what you have in mind)? Regards, Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de

Re: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES in srcdir

2007-03-15 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
install those from the source tree and not those from the build tree as it should be. Unfortunately I never got an answer and last time I looked in CVS this bug was still there. Couldn't you take care of that problem? regards Peter Breitenlohner [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A problem (bug) in automake (1.10 and earlier version)

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
. On the other hand I would think that (2) is equally wrong. Whenever a file is to be installed, then the automake-generated rules should FIRST look for that file in the current directory and THEN under ${srcdir}! === Peter Breitenlohner [EMAIL PROTECTED]